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Is that self-esteem?
Or loss of reality?
Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer wants to stay in office after the general election
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Kay Nietfeld / picture alliance / dpa
Federal Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) wants to remain in office after the federal election.
"My political goal is to win my constituency in Saarland and to continue to represent the soldiers of the Bundeswehr as minister in Berlin," Kramp-Karrenbauer told the Saarbrücker Zeitung.
Kramp-Karrenbauer's request to speak comes at a time when she does not have too much political tailwind.
Because of the evacuation mission in Kabul, which started much too late, the opposition repeatedly called for the minister to resign.
In addition, the Union's candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet, presented his »future team« in Berlin on Friday - but the incumbent minister from Saarland is not a member.
Kramp-Karrenbauer said she was "glad that Peter Neumann, an expert on the terror scene," is one of the eight experts in Laschet's team.
The terrorism researcher from London's King's College is responsible for internal and external security.
Laschet had introduced the team in order to escape its polling low a good three weeks before the federal election.
Kramp-Karrenbauer told the "Saarbrücker Zeitung" that she was "of the same opinion as Armin Laschet that we as a union must compete in the election campaign as a team."
Kramp-Karrenbauer had led the CDU for a good year before it was replaced by Laschet in January.
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